The
United States has a new Permanent Ambassador to the OAS. Why should
this be important to you? Why did this go almost unremarked by most
in the media? Should we be concerned that this new Ambassador once had
a leadership role within MALDEF and may have an agenda that would not
best serve all American citizens, especially with the highly contentious
immigration and amnesty issues facing our nation?

[Carmen
Lomellin was confirmed by the United States Senate as Permanent U.S.
Representative to the Organization of American States, with the rank
of Ambassador, on November 20, 2009.

During
the Clinton Administration, Ambassador Lomellin held the positions of
White House Liaison for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and
Director of that agency’s Office of International Affairs.

Ambassador
Lomellin has experience in local government (Chicago, Illinois). She
worked for Mayor Richard M. Daley as Director of the Private Industry
Council of Chicago and also implemented and managed one of the nation’s
most successful graffiti abatement programs.

Ambassador
Lomellin has worked for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational
Fund where she was the Director of Leadership Development, and for Chicago
United, a civic think tank, as Director of Economic Development.]

[Ambassador
Carmen Lomellin on Friday presented credentials to the Secretary General
of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza,
to become the new Permanent Representative of the United States to the
Organization.

Ambassador
Carmen Lomellin most recently served as Director of Outreach within
the OAS Secretariat of External Relations and previously was Executive
Secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM).

The
new Permanent Representative worked as Director of Leadership Development
for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
and has spent a major part of her professional career and personal life
working on women’s issues, particularly those in the United States
Hispanic community. ]

[Founded
in 1968, MALDEF is the nation’s leading non-profit Latino legal
organization. Often described as the “law firm of the Latino community,”
MALDEF promotes equality and justice through litigation, advocacy, public
policy, and community education in the areas of employment, immigrants’
rights, voting rights, education, and language rights.]

Many
believe the United Nations to be a paper tiger of blustering dignitaries,
soaring rhetoric and financial scandal, accomplishing nothing. We would
be much better off were that the case.
In truth, the United Nations has worked for decades, systematically
laying a framework for world government and incrementally, region by
region, they are accomplishing their goals.

The
OAS is an arm of the United Nations and follows closely the United Nations
mandates in its aspirations and accomplishments.

The
OAS is a 35 member regional hemispheric organization and the United
States is one member state.

[The
Organization of American States (OAS) is the world's oldest regional
organization, dating back to the First International Conference of American
States, held in Washington, D.C., from October 1889 to April 1890. At
that meeting the establishment of the International Union of American
Republics was approved. The Charter
of the OAS was signed in Bogotá in 1948 and entered into
force in December 1951. The Charter was subsequently amended by the
Protocol
of Buenos Aires, signed in 1967, which entered into force in February
1970; by the Protocol
of Cartagena de Indias, signed in 1985, which entered into force
in November 1988; by the Protocol
of Managua, signed in 1993, which entered into force on January
29, 1996; and by the Protocol
of Washington, signed in 1992, which entered into force on September
25, 1997. The OAS currently has 35 member
states. In addition, the Organization has granted permanent
observer status to 62 states, as well as to the European Union.]

It
is hard to comprehend the complexity and enormity of a hemispheric government.
It is even more difficult to explain it but I can’t think of anything
more critical for the American citizen to understand.

I
have laid out some of the framework for this behemoth and after you
have read this and explored at least a few of the links, I hope you
will ask the same question which deeply troubles me; what does any of
this have to do with our Constitutionally mandated Representative Republic?

While
this issue is not exactly light reading, it will go a long way to explain
why Washington doesn’t listen to or care what Americans want.
If you have wondered who is pulling the strings in DC, you will want
to know more about the OAS, whose tentacles reach across the hemisphere
and strangle our liberty and our way of life, with the funding, input
and leadership of the United States Government.

Each
day, while you are working or looking for work, while your children
are in school NOT learning about our nation and its rich history, there
are groups working diligently to strengthen a framework for a ‘Consolidation
of Democracy’. They are well funded and heavily supported by Civil
Society organizations, governments and corporations. They are planning,
meeting, writing, voting and growing in strength and size. They are
changing the face of the hemisphere and our nation yet most of us have
never heard of them. We have not elected them and we certainly do not
approve of the changes they are instituting. But they are not accountable
to us.

Do
not be fooled by those who would tell you this is nothing but pomp and
circumstance. That is what they need you to keep believing, while they
plan and activate. The OAS came into being in 1948. The signing of the
NAFTA
agreement in 1993 and the First
Summit of the Americas in 1994, gave the OAS a new mandate. You
can see the handy work in much of our legislation and administrations
policies. Next time our so called ‘Representatives’ put
forth legislation that seems contrary to the will of the American people
or to the good of the nation, and force it through without shame, look
to the OAS, the Summits of the Americas and further to the United Nations.

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The
OAS media
center has video (in Spanish) and even if you can’t understand,
you can see the system in action. There are also audio recordings and
written speeches in English listed there. Two TV commercials about the
Inter-American Democratic Charter can
be watched here. I wonder if these were ever shown on American TV?

Below
are links and excerpts from OAS websites which describe their mission
and activities. I have not listed all simply because there is no end
to them. Each organization has sub-organizations and departments.

[The
Summits of the Americas bring together the Heads of State and Government
of the Western Hemisphere to discuss common concerns, seek solutions
and develop a shared vision for their future development of the region,
be it economic, social or political in nature]

[During
the Third Summit of the Americas, held in Quebec City, Canada, in April
of 2001, the partner institutions of the Summit Process (the Economic
Commission for Latin America (ECLAC),
the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB),
the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),
and the World Bank),
coordinated by the Organization of American States (OAS),
presented their first joint hemispheric report, outlining the activities
carried out in fulfillment of the mandates of the Second Summit of the
Americas, held in Santiago, Chile, in April of 1998.]

[The
Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) is an organ of
the OAS with decision-making power in matters of partnership for integral
development. It was established through the entry into force of the
Protocol
of Managua on January 29, 1996.]

[Its
mission is to “lead strategic collaborative efforts among member
states and other partners to promote equity in health, to combat disease,
and to improve the quality of and lengthen the lives of the peoples
of the Americas.”]

[The
Institute is a specialized organization that helps create public policy
on children in the Americas, promotes the partnership between the State
and civil society, and cultivates a critical awareness of the problems
affecting children and adolescents in the region.]

[Created
by the Sixth International Conference of American States (Havana, 1928),
the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) is the OAS’ advisory
body on issues related to women in the Hemisphere and the principal
forum generating hemispheric policy to promote the rights of women and
gender equality and equity.]

[The
Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction (IACNDR) was
created by the General Assembly in resolution AG/RES. 1682 (XXIX-O/99)
to address problems related to natural disasters and to serve as the
leading forum at the Organization of American States (OAS) for discussion
of this topic, in coordination with the competent national organizations.]

[Its
objectives are to help strengthen human resources, facilitate the exchange
of information and other forms of technical cooperation, and support
reform and modernization of the justice systems in the region.]

[Established
in 1962, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) is a private,
nonprofit, nongovernmental institution that operates under a cooperation
agreement concluded with the OAS to support development programs and
assistance to victims of natural disasters and humanitarian crises.]

[The
Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) was established in 1942 to study
and recommend measures for the defense of the Hemisphere. It is the
oldest multilateral military organization in the world. It also supervises
a senior-level academic program in security and defense studies at the
Inter-American Defense College.]

[The
purpose of the Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP) is to serve as
the permanent inter-American forum of the member states of the Organization
for strengthening cooperation in the development of the port sector,
with the active participation and collaboration of the private sector.]

[CICAD's
anti-drug program is divided into six areas of activity: Demand Reduction;
Educational Research and Development; Supply Reduction and Alternative
Development; Money Laundering; Institutional Development; the Multilateral
Evaluation Mechanism (MEM), and the Inter-American Observatory on Drugs.]

[The
Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE)
was established by Executive Order 05-13, Rev. 1. Its mission is to
support the member states at CICTE's regular sessions and preparatory
meetings, to offer technical assistance and training programs, and to
promote coordination and cooperation among the member states and with
multilateral and international organizations so as to prevent, combat,
and eliminate terrorism.]

"CJ"
Graham is a Veteran and the proud wife of a retired USAF Veteran. She
is a dedicated mother, activist, conservative, independent, who's allegiance
is to her country and not to a particular political party. She is a firm
believer in the power of the Citizen of the United States of America to
whom she writes with a empowering and encouraging spirit. She knows that
the Citizen of the USA can make a difference through peaceful, focused,
knowledge empowered, activism working within the system and with media
and legislators to effect change. As an author, she writes from the heart
but backs up her work with facts.

It is
hard to comprehend the complexity and enormity of a hemispheric government.
It is even more difficult to explain it but I can’t think of anything
more critical for the American citizen to understand.